Example sentences of "secretary [prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 2 | Amendments made : No. 10 , in page 33 , line 29 , at end insert — ( ) The Secretary of State may give general directions to the Council about the exercise of their functions . |
| 3 | The bill 's first clause simply states : ‘ The Secretary of State may make arrangements for enabling eligible students to receive loans towards their maintenance out of money made available by him for that purpose . ’ |
| 4 | The section provides that the Secretary of State may make provisions by regulations in relation to revised accounts and reports which , in particular , may : — make different provisions according to whether the previous documents are replaced or merely supplemented by a statement of corrections ; deal with the functions of the auditors ; require the directors to take specified steps in relation to circulation to members and others entitled under section 238 ; laying before a general meeting and delivery to the Registrar ; and the application of provisions of the Act ( including penalties ) . |
| 5 | And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved |
| 6 | Amendments made : No. 62 , in page , 47 line , 43 , at end insert — ( ) The terms and conditions on which the Secretary of State may make any grants under this paragraph may include in particular conditions — ( a ) enabling him to require the repayment , in whole or in part , of sums paid by him if any other condition subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with ; and ( b ) requiring the payment of interest in respect of any period during which a sum due to him in accordance with any other condition remains unpaid , but shall not relate to the application by the college council to which the grant is made of any sums derived otherwise than from the Secretary of State . ' . |
| 7 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State may change the distributing bodies and alter the percentages for the five categories , but none is to receive less than 5% . |
| 9 | The court or the Secretary of State may waive reporting restrictions in individual cases for the benefit of the child . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State may withhold payment of the last 15% of the grant amount until he has accepted that the work of the Project has been completed . |
| 11 | By section 144(1) , as a result of a report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , the Secretary of State may grant a licence as of right if the public interest would be prejudiced ; for example , if the owner of the copyright in a unique computer program refuses to grant licences on reasonable terms . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 13 | To avoid the prospect of local authorities , whose rate fund becomes overdrawn within a year , from ‘ going bankrupt ’ , the Act provides that authorities concerned may be given permission to borrow temporarily on revenue account , but only on such terms as the Secretary of State may impose . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State may authorise any person appearing to him : — ( i ) to be ‘ fit and proper , ’ and ( ii ) to have an interest in , and satisfactory procedures directed to , securing compliance by companies with the accounting provisions and for receiving and investigation complaints . |
| 15 | In deciding whether to make a reference to the MMC the Secretary of State may ask for advice from the Director General of Fair Trading , as the OFT usually carries out a preliminary examination of the merger . |
| 16 | ‘ Where , in the case of any fishing vessel , the Secretary of State is satisfied that — ( a ) the vessel would be eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel but for the fact that any particular individual , or ( as the case may be ) each of a number of particular individuals , is not a British citizen ( and is accordingly not a qualified person ) , and ( b ) it would be appropriate to dispense with the requirement of British citizenship in the case of that individual or those individuals , in view of the length of time he has or they have resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom , the Secretary of State may determine that that requirement should be so dispensed with ; and , if he does so , the vessel shall , so long as paragraph ( a ) above applies to it and any such determination remains in force , be treated for the purposes of this Part as eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State may add to this list by powers granted in the Act . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State may add to this list and has more general powers to ensure that local authorities do ‘ not act in a manner having the effect or intended or likely to have the effect of restricting , distorting or preventing competition ’ ( s.4(5) ) . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 21 | An order made under section Scottish Further Education Funding Council of this Act may contain such additional provisions — ( a ) relating to the membership , staff and proceedings of the Funding Council ( including any committee of them ) ; ( b ) relating to salaries , pensions , allowances and any other payments to be paid to members of the Funding Council ( including any such committee ) and to staff ; and ( c ) as to the winding-up and dissolution of the Funding Council , as the Secretary of State may consider necessary or expedient . |
| 22 | If the LEA declines to make a statement , the value of an appeal is somewhat limited in that the Secretary of State may direct the LEA to reconsider its decision , but can not impose a decision on the authority . |
| 23 | to carry out such ancillary activities as the Secretary of State may direct . |
| 24 | to carry out such ancillary activities as the Secretary of State may direct . |
| 25 | All right , the secretary of state may have had a Cabinet committee meeting . |
| 26 | That document was today leaked in part in The Independent and the newspaper also contained my allegation that the Secretary of State may have misled the House in relation to figures that he quoted last week in the House . |
| 27 | I hope that my hon. Friend will dispel any notion that the Secretary of State may have sought to introduce to the effect that the passage of the Bill would be seriously delayed if we examined the important question of victimisation . |
| 28 | It provides that the secretary of state may designate an area where he may ‘ compile and maintain a register , of land … owned by a public body ’ which , in his opinion , ‘ is not being used or not being sufficiently used ’ . |
| 29 | Erm in my view the Secretary of State may come to the view on the latest figures that are available for him and erm No that is what I hope he will do when it comes to erm producing regional guidance . |
| 30 | Moreover , the Secretary of State may allow an extension in special circumstances . |